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J. P. LYBARGER.

EXTENSION HANDLE. No. 393,377. Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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EXTENSION-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,377, dated November27, 1888.

Serial No. 256,709. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. LYBARGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Rimer, in the county of Putnam and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Extension-Handle, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of an extension handle for brooms, pitchforks, orother straight to handled implements.

Figure l is a view of my device attached to another handle; Fig. 2, aView of the handle detached; Fig. 3, an end view showing handle andcompressing-ring.

The object of my invention is to furnish a cheap, simple, and ever-readyextension-handle for brooin-handles especially, (but it may be attachedto other handles,) so that a woman can in a moment attach it to abroom-handle and lengthen it, so that she can reach the ceilings andsweep down the dust that accumulates there. There are brooms made withlong straight handles; but these are unwieldydifficult to move around insmall rooms among furniture, 8m; but with my extension-handle it can beattached and detached at will and one handle used for any broom aboutthe place. The extension can also be used to lengthen the handle offruit tree trimmers or 0 other handled devices.

The construction is as follows: A tapering handle, A, hasa taperinghole, G, bored in its larger end for some eight inches, and down throughthis end are sawed three slots, G.

1 Over the small end of the extension I drop 5 a ring, B, large enoughto slip nearly to the larger end of the handle, but not large enough togo beyond it. Near the lower end of the slot I wrap the handle withwire, D, or put a band around it and drive a couple of small 0 staplesin or leave a portion of the wire bent out, so that the ring B cannotslip back beyond it. When it is desired to use it, the small end of abroomhandle is inserted in the hole Gin the end of the extension, the 5ring B resting on the staples or projections E. When the broom-handlehas been properly placed, the ring B is slid up toward the large end,clamping the three pieces of the extension tightly on the broomhandleand holding it firmly in position.

What I claim is- The combination, with abroom-handle, of anextension-holder made of one piece of wood flaring at the upper end tokeep the slide-ring from sliding up, having aholebored inthe end toreceive the end of the broom-handle, the sides being split to allow ofexpansion, provided with a slide-ring for contracting the same, andbeing wrapped with wire to keep from splitting and to keep the ring fromslipping down, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN P. LYBARGER.

Witnesses:

E. K. CAMPBELL, NED CAMPBELL.

